Paul Davies - Physical Quotes

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The brain is the medium of expression of the human mind. Similarly the entire physical universe would be the medium of expression of the mind of a natural God.

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Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so the fit between theory and reality gets closer. Some physicists are now claiming that supergravity is the reality, that the model and the real world are in mathematically perfect accord.

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Human beings have always been struck by the complex harmony and intricate organization of the physical world. The march of the heavenly bodies across the sky, the rhythms of the seasons, the pattern of a snowflake, the myriads of living creatures so well adapted to their environment – all these things seem too well arranged to be a mindless accident.

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The incorporation of imaginary elements into physical theories is one of the most difficult practices for a professional physicist to justify to the layman. Of course, if a particular feature, such as isotopic spin symmetry, renders the model a brilliant success, then the physicist can simply reply, "I put it in because it works!"

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I belong to the group of scientists who do not subscribe to a conventional religion but nevertheless deny that the universe is a purposeless accident.... The physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it merely as a brute fact. There must... be a deeper level of explanation.

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Whether mathematical simplicity is God's affair or our, the fact remains that this feature more than any other remains the mainspring of progress in the physical sciences.

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